Bøger af Filomena Maggino

The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research Since the 1960s two over-lapping but fairly distinct research communities and traditions have developed concerning ideas about the quality of life, individually and collectively, one with a fairly narrow focus on health-related issues and one with a quite broad focus. In many ways, the central issues of these fields have roots extending to the observations and speculations of ancient philosophers, creating a continuous exploration by diverse explorers in diverse historic and cultural circumstances over several centuries of the qualities of human existence. What we have not had so far is a single, multidimensional reference work connecting the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields. Entries will be organized alphabetically and cover basic concepts, relatively well-established facts, lawlike and causal relations, theories, methods, standardized tests, biographic entries on significant figures, organizational profiles, indicators and indexes of qualities of individuals and of communities of diverse sizes, including rural areas, towns, cities, counties, provinces, states, regions, countries and groups of countries.

The answer in this small but dense book written by a Data professional herself (Filomena Maggino is a full professor of Statistics at "La Sapienza" University of Rome) is that not only does it make sense to reaffirm qualitative parameters but that it is urgent to turn our daily lives and our complex societies around by orienting them toward a New Humanism that identifies Integral Well-being as the "pole star" of individual and political action. To move in this direction, it is important, on the one hand, to clarify some basic concepts and focus on the right issues (what is meant by "well-being"? What does "quality of life" mean? And what do we refer to when we talk about "sustainability"...); on the other hand, it is necessary to address the field of action, providing very practical directions for initiating political projects of "humanizing renewal," according to the terminology used by Marco Guzzi.